JSTOR Daily

Not surprisingly, parents, teachers, and family income affect educational and life outcomes for teenagers—but so does their best friend’s mother. https://bit.ly/4ihKN9B

Have you written a sestina lately? https://bit.ly/3XVPQEn

Beyond taxidermied whales and rhinos, natural history is a complex field whose study over centuries has pondered questions regarding museum collecting practices, racism, gender norms, violence and more. JSTOR Daily’s newest reading list offers a comprehensive range of scholarship from the field. https://bit.ly/4iPLKFN

In China’s “treaty ports,” where Western powers operated as colonial administrations in the nineteenth century, technical knowledge was exchanged among foreign missionaries, architects, engineers, and the exclusively Chinese construction crews. https://bit.ly/3FFYrVm

Originally viewed as a way to educate tourists on the multiple peoples and traditions of South Africa, cultural villages may soon be a thing of the past. https://bit.ly/4bPZcXU

Accused as a witch? Sue ’em! At least, that’s what they did in the Kingdom of Navarre, where some of the victims brought suit against their accusers for defamation and other offenses. https://bit.ly/3DvC9VX

Quick, what’s another word for “local watering hole”? Check out our new puzzle and put your knowledge to good use. https://bit.ly/4ioCJno

If federal chainsaws wind up coming for the Postal Service, what will that do to American political progress? https://bit.ly/3DDaMJv

While you may know Iron Man as a Marvel character, millions of children in the lands that make-up the former Soviet Union know him as one of the crew who go looking for the all-powerful wizard in Aleksander Volkov’s adaptation of the L. Frank Baum classic about Dorothy and Oz. https://bit.ly/4hhHxJU

Having your home taken apart to build someone else’s sounds nothing short of disorienting. Still, this has been the experience of rural Southeast Asian communities whose environments are a priceless source of the sand that fuels construction across the region’s sprawling mega-cities. https://bit.ly/41hGdAQ